I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

I don’t exercise.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I’m still sort of an invalid now.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

I love being active.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

I’m much healthier now.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

How young can you die of old age?

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Water is my drink.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.